Patrick Beverley spoke recently on his podcast about his negotiation process with the LA Clippers. Beverley claimed that he had received a 3-year, $50 million offer from the Kings. Steve Ballmer, the owner of the Clippers, offered Beverley 94 basketball courts to convince him to take a $10 million pay cut. He joked that he is still waiting for the courts that Balmer promised him, with them building just two of those courts.
“I signed my deal with the Clippers. I got like a 3-year, $50 million from Sacramento. And I’m like, ‘Nah, I’m cool’. I wanted to stay a Clipper. So I take the 3-year, $40 million from the Clippers. We go to the meeting at the Ritz in Marina Del Rey, and we agree to the 3-year, $40 million.”
“Steve Ballmer goes ‘With that, I’m gonna give you 94 basketball courts that you can choose to put all around LA’. That’s fire as f**k. I think they built two of them, and then COVID hit. So I hit my agent like ‘What’s up with those 92 basketball courts?’. I see they just built the arena worth $2 billion…”
“Do I get my 92 courts? We shook on it too. I need 92 more courts. I got a lot going on, I want to do it for the city of Los Angeles. I got 92 courts I want to build still. I brought it back up. I was on the opposing team with Minnesota, I’m like ‘Yo where the f**k my courts at? What’s up?… Where the courts at?’.
Beverley would sign a 3-year, $40 million contract with the Clippers in 2019. He would stay with the team for just two more seasons, as they would trade him in 2021 to the Timberwolves. Beverley would get his revenge on the Clippers, helping to eliminate them in their 2022 playoff game.
Patrick Beverley Looking To Make NBA Return
In the same podcast episode, Patrick Beverley spoke about hoping to return to the NBA, as his time with Hapoel Tel Aviv has been very taxing on him since his teammate decided to leave, and has been fielding calls from NBA and EuroLeague teams asking if he was leaving. Beverley noted that he had some tough decisions to make.
“This week has been kind of tough for us. Our big man, Jonathan Motley… said he doesn’t feel safe anymore [in Israel]. Leaves the team. Our leading scorer, the best big man in Europe, wants to go to a EuroLeague team in Serbia. We’re just out here with no big man. Where do we go from here?…”
“NBA and EuroLeague teams called to see ‘Are you guys blowing up? What’s going on?’. [I feel] a little bit [abandoned]. He knew I came here because he was here. My initial point coming here was big Mot, we played together on the Clippers, he was my rookie…”
“I came here to win, to be on a specific team… If I go back to the NBA, do I turn my back on my teammates? That’s not my style. I have some decisions to make, and I’ll make the right one like I always do.”
Beverley signed a ‘historic deal’ in his own words with Hapoel Tel Aviv this past summer, snubbing a minimum NBA deal. But he could be targeting a return to the league now that things aren’t working out for him in Tel Aviv the way he hoped.
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